Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-04-11
thing gloriously suggestive of another
state
l called at
MY FRIENDS HOUSE

called at
MY FRIENDS HOUSE
one summer dav. found the ward all
piled up with the rubbish of carpenter
and mason's work. The door was off.
The plumbers had torn up the floor. The
! roof was being lifted in cupola. All the
pictures were gone, and the paper hangers
were doing their work. All the modern
Improvements were being introduced into
that dwelling. There was not a room in
the house fit to live in at that time, al
though month before when | visited
that house everything was so beautiful |
could not have suggested an improvement
My friend had gone with his family to the
Holy Land, expecting to come back at the
end of six months, when the building was
to be done. And Oh, what was his ioy
when at the end of six months he returned
and the old house was enlarged and i'm
proved and gloritied That is your body.
Ii looks we'll now. All the rooms filled
with health, and We could hardly make q
suggestion. But after awhile your soul
will 90 TO the Holy Land. and while You
are gone the old house of your tabernacle
will he entirely reconstructed from cellar
to attic, and every nerve, muscle and
bone and tissue and artery must he hauled
over, and the old structure will be burn
ished and adorned and raised and cupOlaed
and enlarged, and all the improvements of
Heaven introduced, and You will move in
to it on resurrection day. For we know
that if our earthly house OF
this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a
building of God, house not made with
hands, eternal in the heavens" o, what
a day when body and soul meet again!
They are very fond of each other. Did
your body ever have pain and your soul
not pity it? or your body have a joy and
your soul not re-echo it? OF, changing the
question, did your soul ever have any
trouble and your body not sympathize with
it? growing wan and weak under the de-
pressing influence? Or did your soul ever
have gladness hut your body ceebrated
it with kindled eye and cheek and elastic
step? Surely God never intended two such
good friends to he very long separated.
And so when the worlds last Easter morn
ing shall come the soul will descend, cry
ing, "Where is my body" and the body
will ascend, saying, Where is my soul?"
and the Lord of the resurrection will bring
them together, and it will be perfect soul
in perfect body, introduced by perfect
Christ into a perfect heaven. Victory!
Do you wonder that to-day we swathe this
house with garlands? Do you wonder we
celebrate it with the most consecrated voice
of song that we can invite, and with the
deftest fingers on organ and cOrnet, and
with doXOlogies that beat these arches with
the billows of sound as the sea smites the
basalt at Giants Causeway? Only the bad
disapproye of the resurrection.
A CRUEL HEATHEN WARRIOR
heard Mr.. Molfat, the missionary, preach
about the resurrection and he said 10 the
missionary, "Will my father rise in the
last day" Yes" said the missionary.
will all the dead in battle rise?" said
the cruel chieltain?'' Yes" said the
missionary. Then" said the warrior,
''let me hear no more about the resurrec-
tion day. There can be no resurrection,
there shall be no resurrection. | have
slain thousands in battle. Will they
rise?" All, there will be more 10 rise on
that day than those want 10 see whose
crimes have never been repented of. But
for all Others who allowed Christ to he
their pardon and their life and their resur.
reCtlOn it will be day of victory.
The thunders of the last day will be the
salvo that greets you inVO harbOr. The
lightnings will he the only torches of tri-
umphal procession marching down TO es-
cOrt yOu home The burning worlds
flashing through immensity will be the
rockets celebrating your coronation on
thrones where you will reign forever and
forever and forever. Where is death?
What have we to do with death? As your
reunited body aud soul swing of from this
planet on that last day you will see deep
gashes all up and down the hills, deep
gasheS all through the valleys and they
will he the emptied graves, they will be
the abandoned sepulchres, with rough
ground tossed on either side of them, and
slabs will lie uneven on the rent hillocks,
and there will he fallen monuments and
cenotaphs, and then for the first time You
will appreciate the full exhilaratiOn of the
text, "He will swallow up death in vic.
tory
Hail the Lord Of earth and heaven!
Praise Ia Thee by both De- given.
Thee We greet triumphant nov,
Hail the resurrection Thou